Manifolding device.



A. GILBERT.

MANIPOLDING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED D110. 30, 1910.

1,026,308. Patented May 14, 1912. 1 3 91 UNITED sTA Es PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED omna'r', or. :smmmeriam, ENGLAND.

MA NIFOIIDING' DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 30, 1910. Serial No. 600,198.

conjunction with t ypewriting machines and the like and consists of an improved construction of carrier sheet made of paper ,or other suitable material fo holding a carbon sheet and the papers on which the type writing is to be mad My said invention is, constructed and adapted for use in the manner which I will describe by referring to the accompanying drawings of which Figure 1 is alongitudinal section of my invention; Fig; 2 isalso a longitudinal section of my invention showing the carbon sheet in position ready to be held and gripped thereby; Fig. 3, is a longitudinal section of my invention with the carbon sheet ini position ready to be used in the typewriting machine. Fig. 4 is a plan of my invention with the carbon sheet held thereby as in Fi .3, arts of my invention and the carbon s eet eing torn away so as .to show the construction and arrangement,

and Fig. 5 is a longitudinal section of a slightly modified form of my invention.

My invention consists of a base sheet A of paper or other suitable material and a binder strip B of similar material fixed thereto. The base sheet A is of rectangular shape and preferably'somewhat larger than the carbon sheet C with which it is re uired to be used. The binder strip B is a olded or doubled strip agreeing in its length with 'the width of the base sheet A. A portion 1 of the folded or doubled part of the binder strip B is in its entire length glued or otherwise fastened together so that in cross section at right angles to the folded or doubled part of the binder strip B is in the shape of the letter Y, see Fig. 1 the stem 1 of the Y,

representing the glued portion of the fold while the twoforks 2., 3 of the Y are formed where the by the two thicknesses of the binder strip opening apart from the longitudinal line 4 luing orsticking together of the two thic nesses terminates.

The edge 5 of the base sheet A is inserted -in the binder strip between the forks, 2, 3,

of the Y to the outer part of one of which namely the fork 3 the base sheet is glued or otherwise fastened at 6, so that the innermost extreme edge 5 of the base sheet is for a short distance left free from the fork 3.

My invention is used as follows :The

binder strip B is folded completely under the base sheet 'A folded at the point 4 as in Fig. 1, A. The carbon paper C is inserted between the base sheet A and the fork 3. The binder strip B is now turned back into position as in Fi 3 carrying with it the carbon sheet C w ich thus'becomes folded.

over the upper edge of the base sheet A as shown in Fig. '3 and is firmly held and gripped between the forks 2, 3, "of the forked gripping strip B. Several sheets of carbon paper may be inserted together and in the same manner. The upper fork or flap 2 of the binder strip serves as a register for inserting the yarious papers to be used in conjunction with the carbon sheet as the edges of these papers have to be knocked up to the line 4 from where the forks 2, 3, of the ,forks of the Y spring. The 'Y section binder strip B may be either formed by folding one strip of material and gumming or otherwise Patented May 14., 1912.

sticking the two thicknesses together to 5 form the straight limb 1 of the Y as in Figs. 1, 2,3, and 4, or the same section strip can be constructed'as in Fi 5, of two strips, one of'which will form t e fork 2 of the Y and one thickness of the straight limb or stem 1, and the otherstri will form the other fork 3 of the Y and t e other thickness of the stem 1. When the Y is made of two separate strips as above described and as shown in Fig. 5, the edge 8 of the one strip is by preference. made to project somewhat beyond the edge 9 of the other strip so as to facilitate the insertion in the typewriter of the carrier sheet with the carbon sheets and other papers.

Having now fully described my said invention what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is The hereindescribed manifolding device,

5 comprising the combination, with a forkshaped binder strip (B) of paper, of an extension (6) integral with one member of the fork, and a base sheet (A) also of paper, to the underside and near the end of which the 10 said extension is glued in such a manner that the edge of the base sheet projects between the fork members, substantially as and for the purpose specified and shown.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing 5 Witnesses.

- ALFRED GILBERT. Witnesses:

ETHEL' M. WEBB, KATHLEEN M. THOMPSON. 

